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No. 594,794. Patented Nov. so, 1897.

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A'rnnr NATHAN HATCH, OF ALBANY, NEW YORK.

UNDERGARM ENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 594,794, dated November30, 1897.

Application filed November 4, 1896. Serial No. 611,008. (No model.)

To LZZ whom t may concern:

Beit known that I, NATHAN HATCH, of Albany, lin the county of Albany andState of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements inUndergarments, of which the following is a specification.

My invent-ion relates to improvements in that class of garments known asunderwear, but especially to undershirts and union garments in which anundershirt and drawers are comprised in one garment; and the object ofmy invention is to afford facilities for drawing on the garment eitherover the head or the feet of the wearer, as may be preferred.

It is a well-known fact that considerable difficulty is experienced indrawing on an undershirt over the head by reason of the small size ofthe neck-opening, and this difficulty exists more particularly in knitgoods, wherein from their elastic quality provision is always made toallow the goods to stretch to it closely to the form of the wearer, theneckopening in that class of goods being usually too small to allow thehead of the wearer to pass comfortably through said opening withoutdisheveling the hair. It is also a wellknown fact that when suchgarments are for children of tender growth, who generally depend upon aparent or attendant to change their clothing, their little arms arefrequently strained and sometimes injured by extending them over theirheads to have the sleeves drawn into lplace thereon. By affordingfacilities for drawing on the undergarment over the feet this danger isentirely avoided. In my improvement the transverse opening at the upperend of the body of the garment is of substantially the same width as thelargest part of the body of the garment, and at the upper end of theback of the latter there is a bifurcated flap which forms two tabs thatmay be either integral therewith or attached thereto, which when foldeddown upon .the front of the garment will join together at their straightedges and virtuallyform a chest-protector. Each of said tabs is providedwith a semicrcular indentation at or near its point of junction with theback of the garment, so that when the two tabs are folded down upon thefront of the garment said indentations will form a proper neck-openingthat will register with the transverse opening at the upper end of thetubular body of the garment and encircle the neck of the wearer.

In the accompanying drawings, which are herein referredlto and form partof this specification, Figure l is a front elevation of a mansundershirt embodying my improvements, showing the tabs extended andseparated in the manner they are before the garment applied to the bodyof a wearer; and Fig. 2 is a like view of the garment with the tabsfolded down and fastened together at their overlapping edges, the`complementary parts of a union garment being indicated by dotted lines.

It should be understood that my invention is equally adapted to male orfemale underwear, either adults or childrens, and whether the garmentsare of knit goods or other textile fabrics.

As represented in the drawings, A designates the body of the garment,which is preferably made in a tubular form of a uniform diameter; but itmay be contracted in diameter at the waist-line, if preferred, and theopenings at the upper and lower ends of the body are preferably made oflike width, so that the garment may be drawn onto a wearer by insertingthe feet into the opening at the upper end of the body and pulling thegarment upward into proper place. At the upper end of the back B twotabs C are formed or secured thereto, and semicircular indentations-Dare formed in said tabs near the upper end of the back B, which, whenthe edges of said tabs are brought together, as shown in Fig. 2, willform a proper neck-opening E, that will t the neck of awearer. The tabsC maybe made in any preferred form; but preferably they'are made offabric similar to or eXactlylike the body of the garment, whetherintegral with or attached to said body, and they are shaped similarly toachest-protector, so as to overlap at their adjacent edges, one of whichis provided with buttons l and the other with buttonholes 2, by whichthe two may be fastened together, but when preferred any other means forfastening the two parts together may be employed. The garment isprovided with the usual form' of sleeves F, which project laterally fromboth sides of the body A, at the upper end of the'same, but for summerWear the sleeves F may be omitted and armholes formed at oppositelsidesof the body correspondingto the places occupied by said sleeves. v

It is obvious that, when preferred, this garment can be drawn on overthe head in the usual manner of getting into undershirts. Then after -itis in place on the body of the wearer and the arms properly inserted inthe sleeves of the garment the tabs C are turned over onto the breast ofthe wearer and the adj aeent edges of said tabs fastened together by themeans provided for that purpose.

In the union garment shown and indicated in Fig. 2 the body of thegarment is formed substantially as shown and described in respeot toFig. l; drawer-legs G are formed on the lower end of the body, asindicated by dotted lines in Fig. 2. ln this form of my invention it isnecessary that the garment should be drawn on over the feet of thewearer.

Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent ofthe United States, is-

An undergarment eomprisin g a body having at its upper part a transverseopening of practically the full width of the body, and a bifureated fiapat the upper end of the back containing a neck-opening that Willregister With the transverse opening of the body; the separated limbs ofsaid flap forming tabs which are adapted to fold over onto the frontportion of the body and having sufficient Width to allow the edgesthereof to meet at the median line of the garment, substantially asspeeied.

NATHAN HATCH.

Witnesses:

WM. I-l. LOW, GEO. W. BARRETT.

